Show arm saturday daily oct frightfully CRUSHED from In lant death yesterday morning between nine and ten a fearful and what came near being a fatal accident occurred to mr wilford cragun of north ogden it appears that mr cragun had been for sonio days engaged in digging a drain on hi pro perty assisted by three or four others yesterday morning he had started o work ft maual and while engaged in rocking up alia sides of alio ditch the opposite bank gave way and about TOSS of arsu one of hiis assistants who was digging about three rod from liin hearing the boio of the falling mais turned and taking in the situation rushed to the spot and found to liis horror that lie unfortunate man was CP with dirt by this toiuo tho rest of the men engaged on tho drain had arrived on the spot and vigorous efforts were mado to extricate the poor fellow they expecting to find a the man who first reached the scene of the care jumped down in to the ditch and with hia hands commenced to scrape away the dirt from around mr draguns Cra guns head and after digging for about ten minutes in this manner to the depth of about two feet succeeded in uncovering the face of the crushed and found that lira TILL tho men worked vigorously with pick and shovel but fully one hour elapsed before the injured man could be extricated from the immense pressure of earth which was upon him he was immediately conveyed to lu residence and a messenger dispatched to ogden for medical aid dr P L andorson accompanied by a representative at once started for north ogden arriving there about pm the doctor made a diagnosis of the case and discovered that mr cragun besides receiving ft slight concussion of the brain beveral severe bruised about his head shoulder body and thighs had the CLAVICLE or HIS dr anderson immediately set the broken bone and in a short time under hia treatment the patient was resting comparatively easy he is doing a well as can be expected under the circumstances although it ia probable that a little time may develop impossible to discover upon a arst examination the reporter suited the scene of the accident and found that the dittli was fully thirteen feet deep but only about three feet wide mr version af pf the accident is a follows lie had been digging a little and then rocking up an he went along had noticed he said the day previous A tendency to cave in portions of the bank of the ditch or drain he had carefully watched the dangerous places and had successfully dug past them but owing to the apparent solidity of the earth at the exact spot where the cavo occurred he somewhat HIS he had just stooped to placa a rock in position wh en ho heard tho earth I above giving way and instinctively sprang forward to escape but the trench being so narrow instead of I hi attempt being successful ho was jammed against the opposite side and covered up as above stated large m se of solid earth resting upon his body which took the united strength of two men to dislodge mr cragun is highly esteemed and we sincerely hope that he may speedily recover from alie severe iri jurica he ha sustained |